Recycled Pianos

[annie at allthingspiano.com]

Fiddle makers love those seasoned maple backposts.  And somebody once
posted a link to a site of repurposed pianos -- desks and bars, etc.  The
Journal published an article last year on turning a vertical into a
workbench.

Two consoles in my shop are going to be repurposed this summer: one into a
writing desk and the other into a workbench.

Annie Grieshop
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> Fellow Technicians,
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> A receint post mentioned transfering a piano to the landfill.  Does this
> bother anyone else but me?   (Actually, I don't like taking most things
> to the landfill, but that's another rant.  On most issues, I'm to the
> right of Ayn Rand, but on environmental things I'm almost a liberal!). Â
> Over the last few years I've picked up and disassembled about 15 old
> uprights, mainly to keep them out of landfills.  Business wise this
> doesn't make sense, but it's my contribution to recycling, or so I tell
> myself.   I sell the plates and other metal for scrap, get lots of
> firewood for the shop stove, and sometimes find maple back posts! Â
> Preserving that beautiful, seasoned maple gives me a kick.   I don't
> rightly have time for this, yet I can't just let it go.      Any
> better ideas for recycling?
>
> Mike Tocquigny
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